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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Jan.    10.   1S6-5.— Referred 
to  Committee  of  Ways  and  Means,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[  By  the  Chair.] 


MESSAGE  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Richmond,  Va.,  Jan.  4,  1SG5. 

To  the  Senate  and  House  of  Reprcscntatices : 

I  herewith  transmit,  for  your  consideration,  a  commu- 
nication from  the  Secretary  of  War,  covering  an  estimate  for  an  ad- 
ditional appropriation  required  by  the  Engineer  Bureau. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


COMMUNICATION  FROM  SECRETARY  OF  WAR. 

War  Department,  C.  S.  A. 
Richmond,  Dec.  21,  1S64. 

To  the  President  of  the  Confederate   States: 

Sir  :  * 

I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  herewith,  an  estimate  pre- 
pared by  the  Chief  of  the  Engineer  Bureau,  for  the  Schooner  Isabel, 
seized  by  military  authority  and  sunk  as  an  obstruction  in  Dog  river 
bar  channel,  Mobile  bay,  May  -5,  1S62. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  A.  SEDDON, 

Secretary  of  War. 


ESTIMATE 

For  the  valtu  cf  the  Schooner  Label,  *eiz*d  ?»j  military  authority*  and 
tunic  as  an  obstruction  in  D<g  liner  Bar  Channel,  Mobile  Buy, 
May  5,  ISGsi. 

For  the  value  of  tlie  Schooner  Isabel,  seized  by  military  authority, 
anrl  sunk  as  an  obstruction  in  Dog  river  bar  channel,  Mobile  bay, 
May  5,  1SG2,  ibur  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  (S  4,500). 

(Triplicates.) 

J.  F.  GILMER, 
Maj.  Gen.  §  Chief  Engineer  Bureau. 

Approved  : 

JAMES  A.  SEDDON,  Sec.  tf  War. 

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